Toxic Mike
Last week Michael Quinn Sullivan posted a story on the Empower Texans web site headlined “Toxic Joe.” The reference, of course, is to Joe Straus, the speaker of the House, whom Sullivan has tried to remove from power, with nothing to show for his efforts. The Sullivan-imposed nickname of “Toxic Joe” is full of irony, because if there were a poll of who is the most-toxic person in the Capitol, Sullivan would win, hands-down (and be proud of it).
Sullivan’s writing style relies heavily on inuendo. A typical example:
With the race for the leadership of the Texas House heating up, many are feigning surprise that incumbent moderate Joe Straus hasn’t released a list of supporters despite increasingly brittle claims of invincibility.
Of course, what Sullivan is trying to do here is to create an impression of weakness in the Straus camp — as if to say, Straus must not be doing well because he hasn’t released a list of supporters. Why would Straus do so? Why would the frontrunner reveal to his enemies the names of his supporters, so that Sullivan can rally the tea parties to excoriate those who support the speaker?
Sullivan goes on to say, allegedly quoting unnamed Straus supporters, that “Team Straus recognizes that the speaker is ‘toxic’ with the grassroots. That’s the word used in at least a dozen conversations over the last several weeks by a handful of Straus supporters trying to bring more lawmakers to their side.”
It’s no secret that some of the activists in the Republican party–tea parties, precinct chairs, county chairs, leaders of grass-roots organizations–are not Straus fans. But the activists can’t vote in a speaker’s race. What they have done in the past, and will probably try to do again, is try to bully weak-minded members into supporting David Simpson, who is Straus’s only announced challenger, now that Bryan Hughes has given up the ghost and endorsed Simpson.
Here is more innuendo from Sullivan’s article:
One incumbent legislator told a colleague that the speaker didn’t want his “many supporters” to feel heat from the grassroots during December.
It’s an interesting strategy, and a telling admission. They know voters have little confidence in Mr. Straus’ leadership, and yet are so beholden to appeasing the cronies Straus represents, they’re working to get others to betray their constituents!
Unfortunately for Sullivan — and Simpson — “voters” don’t matter. They can vote in primaries, they can vote in general elections, but not in speaker’s races. Try as he might, he can’t change the constitutional imperative that “the House of Representatives shall, when it first assembles, organize temporarily and proceed to the election of a speaker from its own members.” The constitution doesn’t mention “activists” or “voters.” Only 150 people can cast a vote in a speaker’s race and it will take 76 of them to stop Joe Straus from winning a third term. And Sullivan doesn’t have 76 votes. In fact, if Straus’s hold on the speakership is so slight, why hasn’t Sullivan produced the names of 76 members who won’t vote for Straus?
During the last legislative session, Mr. Simpson took to the floor of the House decrying Straus’ inconsistent application of House rules.
Since then, Mr. Simpson has spoken out against the Straus leadership team’s use of redistricting as a weapon of revenge against legislators.
Mr. Simpson knows a thing or two about beating powerful incumbents. He entered the legislature by defeating one of Joe Straus’ closest allies, Tommy Merritt. This year, the Straus Team had Merritt try to retake the seat, only to be easily defeated by Mr. Simpson.
The race is far from over, and the advantages an incumbent House Speaker wields are not inconsequential. Yet by having not released the names of his supporters and daily acknowledging his toxicity, the case gets stronger that Joe Straus has neither the popular appeal, nor even the internal support, to continue as Speaker.
Sadly, only two dozen of the 95 Republicans have scheduled the GOP Platform-required town hall meetings with their constituents to discuss leadership issues. Time is short, since these meetings are supposed to happen before the start of the legislative session in early January.
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Mr. Sullivan’s innuendo-heavy attack on Straus is cleverly worded to create the impression that Straus is in trouble. I don’t buy a bit of it. I repeat what I said in an earlier post: Neither Bryan Hughes nor David Simpson has the gravitas to be elected speaker of the House.
What is strange to me is that Mr. Sullivan keeps the pot boiling, knowing that he has lost. He knows that Mr. Simpson is too green and too untutored to be speaker. Yet he keeps up an attack on Straus that is doomed to fail. He has tried and tried to find a way that the activists can pressure Republican members to vote against Straus, but he has met with nothing but failure. I can only assume that Sullivan is playing to the gallery here — the gallery being his readers across the state who believe the innuendo-filled nonsense that Straus is on the ropes. The game is lost, Sullivan has no candidate for speaker, and he hasn’t made a dent in Straus’s support. The more he rails against Straus, the more he relegates himself to the status of paper tiger.
Finally, Sullivan is wrong when he says the race is far from over. As I write, it is December 11. Two weeks to Christmas, one week to New Year’s, and one week to the vote for speaker on January 8 — and the end of David Simpson’s quixotic race for speaker.
Tagged: David Simpson, Joe Straus, michael quinn sullivan
Neither Hatfield nor McCoy says:
“Gravitas” in this context meaning…the support of the powerful lobby and Geren/Pitts/Keffer?
If any of those three, or TLR, wanted Straus gone, he’d be chair of the toilet-cleaning committee in a month’s time.
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Spi Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
With Burka’s ample girth he is quite an expert on gravitas.
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Inappropriate Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Don’t be a jerk, Spi.
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Anonymous Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 8:46 am
Is this “Gravitas”?
http://texasconservativepolitics.blogspot.com/
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Willie says:
MQS is repugnant, a Rove wannabe and will be one of the primary reasons this state will be blue in 12 years.
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Old Charlie says:
I agree that Simpson has absolutely no chance to be Speaker. I think it did give Bryan Hughes an opportunity to bow out semi-gracefully but then he said he supports Simpson which was not very graceful.
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Leslie Knope Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
You’re missing the point Old Charlie. Hughes was just an introduction for the dark horse candidate. It was always the plan for him to bow out and endorse whoever was next.
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Bill says:
“He knows that Mr. Simpson is too green and too untutored to be speaker.”
Straus had exactly the same amount of experience in the House when he was elected Speaker (one term) as Simpson has now. How is this anything other than an admission that Straus was too green and too untutored in 2009?
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Just Another Joe Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Straus had 1+ sessions of experience prior to his election to the house. He had more experience than Simpson. Do your homework.
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paulburka Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
I’m not going to argue that Straus was LBJ reincarnated when he got to the House. But he had served in the Reagan Administration, he had run Lamar Smith’s first congressional race, and he had carried a major bill on the House floor.
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Just Another Joe says:
I’ve defended MQS before (or, to be exact, his right to advocate), but I can’t continue to do so. Everything Paul says here is pretty much true, MQS has gone off the deep end and in the process he is trying to cut up the membership for no good reason at all.
Straus produced a very conservative session, especially on the fiscal side. MQS’s opposition to him makes no sense at all. All the things he beats Straus up for not producing after two sessions as Speaker are the exact same things that Craddick didn’t produce after 4 years. Anyone remember Craddick getting this same treatment?
I don’t. And it begs the question…what is the real root of MQS’s opposition to Straus. I fear MQS is one of these “I don’t want a Jewish Speaker” types. Very sad, to say the least.
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GOPER says:
Michael Quinn Sullivan is a LOSER. He is becoming more and more irrelevent by the hour.
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Indiana Purl says:
I’ve been married 47 years and I love pop corn.
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WURSPH says:
He will have become a real loser when people like Paul quit quoting him….He thrives on the sunlight of attention….Put him in the dark and he is nothing to anyone…Paul, please turn out the light on him….
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Robert says:
“…nothing to show for his efforts.” Interesting statement. Burka apparently didn’t look at the Primary Election results for top-Straus operatives in the House.
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paulburka Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Actually, I wrote about them on election night. Straus lost five committee chairs, or maybe six. But losing Delwin Jones and Tommy Merritt was addition by subtraction.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
Without dems Speaker Straus can’t win, so why would a dem prop him up? Straus currently has the 55 dems sewed up, all he needs is 21 Vicki Truitts of the 95 republicans to win the speaker’s race.
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Anonymous Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 4:08 pm
JBB,
so if the dems all voted for Simpson, and had a big press conference saying it was because Simpson opposed vouchers, and didn’t like redistricting being used against members, would you:
a) Be happy,
b) cry like a baby,
c) have your head explode because two of your most child-like concepts (dems bad versus Straus bad) were clashing at the same time, making tears run down your checks?
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paulburka Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
I love the image of tears running down JBB’s “checks.”
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
why would dems support Simpson, isn’t he the enemy?
Now I can understand dems supporting Joe Straus because he is a “friend of the dems”.
That should make some heads explode.
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Anonymous Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Cathy Adams gave Simspon her permission for him to deal with the dems. No headache JBB? Tylenol needed maybe? Slight sinus pressure?
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Cathy Adams did give her permission to deal with dems, use your imagination.
Henry Desmond says:
Michael used to be widely respected as a conservative voice, but he lost all credibility with the members by continuing to bash the House even as it passed a balanced budget with record spending cuts. He had a stage and he blew it, all because Tim Dunn has some bizarre personal vendetta against Straus. Paul’s right: Michael is toxic. And anyone who believes their hatred of Straus is about fiscal policy is wrong and naive.
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Absolutely Sweet Marie says:
MQS is 0-fer in speakers races.
His opposition to Straus is personal, not idealogicai. His money flows from Midland. Hmmmmm…..
Paxon, Hughes, and Simpson couldn’t get even 20 votes. Hell, Phil King is in newspapers today saying Simpson is too green to be speaker. If Simpson doesn’t have guys like Phil King, then Simpson is tilting windmills (or his ego).
But hey, Perry says God told him to run for Prez and Simpson says God told him to run for speaker.
Let’s start a fund to buy both Perry and Simpson some Dre Beats noise-canceling headphones for Christmas.
PS Do y’all think MQS/Simpson notice that Straus pputs a CHRISTmas tree in the House chamber? Just sayin…
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JBBB Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Phil King = Fred Brown= Furniture
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MQSorJustPhlem says:
Just wait…..Trey !artinez Fischer, Armando martinez, Richard Raymond, Jessica Ferrar, Armando Walle, Ana Luna, Roland Gutierrez were recently on a conference call with david Simpson. They gave Simpson their word if he can pull more republicans to his side. The ball is now in Simpsons court. All those D’s felt slighted by joe Straus so they found a new player who will play ball with them. The plot thickens.
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Reagan Republican says:
The crazies are attacking house members as we read this.
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The Mustache That Dare Not Speak Its Name says:
MQS tried to grow a mustache once. He failed. It was a scraggly, mangy little abomination in the eyes of any hirsute and tasteful man. This made him very bitter and he lashes out at the world as a result. This is just the most recent example of that.
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UnaCervezaPorFavor says:
Who wants a drink?
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Indiana Purl says:
I used to date Orville Redenbacher back when we each lived in Brazil, Indiana. Things began to sour however when he disagreed with my views on progressive taxation. He uttered some comments about how he’d worked hard and was entitled to the money he’d made in his popcorn business. I told him he was cold and heartless for not wanting to give more to the government so that more unfortunate souls could have free popcorn. He refused to change his mind and thus I stopped having relations with him. To this day I still wish things had ended differently between us. I still love my popcorn, but ole Orville is dead and gone and the sour taste of his non-progressive ways leaves me sad and bitter.
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Juanita Manziel says:
So Phil King, Dan Flynn, and Jodie Laubenberg are openly with Straus? Homer Simpson has just as good of a chance of becoming Speaker as David Simpson.
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Bodhisattva Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 10:01 am
Is your name really Johnny Futbol?
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Bodhisattva says:
As Groucho Marx said, “Love flies out the door, when money comes innuendo.”
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paulburka says:
I have deleted a comment that I made earlier about Mr. Dunn in which I suggested that he would not support a Jewish Speaker of the House. I regret making that statement and should not have done so. I have a rule against personal attacks on this blog, and it is my job to not only enforce that rule but also set the example. I apologize to Mr. Dunn for this.
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Texian Politico Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 11:27 am
What, you think calling Dunn an anti-semite was out of bounds? Perhaps next time you can just compare Michael Quinn Sullivan to Josef Goebbels?
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Paul we’re used to the democrat double standard, so don’t you worry your pretty lil haid none now ya hear?
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Garner's Bucket Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 11:10 pm
You could take all that “Texian Politico” and JBB understand about the way the system works, place it in the navel of a flea and still have room left over for the brains of several N. East Texas Tea Party Poobahs…
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 6:12 am
sorry but I get it, the average dems thinks tax and spend good, republicans racist.
Texian Politico Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 8:00 am
Ha. You may not agree with me Garner’s Warm Bucket of Sh%@, but I’d put my political and historical knowledge up against your’s any day.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 12:28 pm
I do and you usually lose, did you think you were winning?
No wonder democrats haven’t won a statewide office in 20 years.
Garner's Bucket Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 5:46 pm
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt… A lesson too late learned for some.
And, the late Vice President compared his job to a bucket of warm piss, not “Sh%@”, but so what.
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 9:06 pm
exactly
Texian Politico Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
Hey Garner Sh&% Bucket,
No he didn’t. He said warm sh&$. Why else do you think it’s so often quoted as a bucket of warm spit? Does spit sound like piss to you?
Garner's Bucket Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 10:49 pm
*Sigh* Texian, A flaw in your historical knowledge would seem to be an inability to do research or discern context.
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=press_bucket
It is mere speculation on my part, but in Garner’s time a GOOD thing would have been a bucket of cold beer. A opposite BAD thing, which might at first seem to be a good one, would be a bucket of warm piss. Especially bad when one was perhaps expecting a good thing (i.e. the Vice Presidency being a position of power or influence after having previously been Speaker of the House)and finding oneself tricked, as it were.
Texian Politico Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Where does it say he said warm piss and not warm sh&*? Why would the press use the word spit? Does it rhyme with sh&*? In the old days when one was sick, or the weather was really nasty outside, you were just as likely to have warm sh&* in a bucket as warm piss. Anyhow, you’re the one that started this stupid debate with your smug attitude and condescension. Ha. You will always be Garner’s Sh&% Bucket to me and the go-to expert on the late-John Nance Garner. Oh, and I like your *Sigh*. HA!
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 15th, 2012 at 5:53 am
exactamundo
Dollars and Sense says:
Double, double toil and trouble.
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xanaxSUPERFRO says:
come on guys….relax….no reason for all the hatred…we are all inately good people….lets all turn down the negative vibes and turn up the love…(barry white music turns on) love conquers all evil….(candles are lit) love just feels better doesnt it (rubbing MQS shoulders) you can never have enough love….no need to be so tense MQS…just go with it…shhhhhhhh (putting finger to MQS pouty lips) dont fight the love….thats why you always lose baby….time to make you a winner (leather swing drops from ceiling)
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Anonymous says:
Why doesn’t the lobby stand up to this guy? He leads an army of paper tigers like Weston Hicks and Daniel Greer, and non-Texans like Raz Shafer.
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Sarah says:
Boring.
Time for a new post, Paul.
MQS opponents rolled out the usual anti-Jewish rant and slurs when referring to Mr. Sullivan.
Please move on.
This is why readership and input are way lower than prior years.
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Anonymous Reply:
December 12th, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Well Sarah, in stirring up opposition to the Speaker, MQS is certainly responsible for some of the antisemitic rhetoric that the mouth breathers that oppose Straus have brought up.
Anytime someone brings up “Christian” when talking about opposing Straus, it is reasonable to assume they are dog whistling to the antisemitism that is prevalent in many parts of this state.
I have not seen him disavow it. He wants to be the head of the movement, he needs to own it.
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Anonymous Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 6:39 am
You are so wrong about this. In fact, it’s just the opposite in Anytown, Texas.
Down at the First Baptist Churches of the Anytowns, the preachers fill the pulpit Sunday after Sunday and tell the congregation that the Jews are the apples of God’s eye and the chosen tribe through whom all prophecy is fulfilled. Those who bless them will be blessed and those who curse them will be cursed.
This is another reason, aside from the inherent militaristic and warmongering nature of Texans, that people in this state are so eager to start and fight in new wars against Israel’s enemies.
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ANON Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
The people of this state are dumber than a bucket of hair.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 15th, 2012 at 5:55 am
yes that is true, some even vote for a candidate because of their skin color, or their name, or a D by their name and no other reason. How dumb is that?~!
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Kenneth D. Franks says:
Maybe the link will work. If not you can find it.
kennethdfranks.blogspot.com/2012/12/would-gop-balk-if-democrats-back-bid-html#links
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Anonymous Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 10:31 am
Mr. Franks, perhaps you should take out an ad in Texas Monthly promoting your blog site instead of venturing over here where the action is and trying to direct them where it ain’t.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Mr Franks has been on the taxpayer dole his whole life, he thinks he’s entitled.
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Kenneth D. Franks Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
J.J.B., I have a lot of work experience in the private sector so you are wrong again.
Kenneth D. Franks says:
“Toxic Innuendo,’ sounds like a good name for a rock band. As for 10:31 am, you can feel free to never visit my blog site. I had a post about the Texas House Speaker’s race /non race. Innuendo by the way is the correct spelling.
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Bevo's Brain says:
Eric Dondero, a former staffer for Ron Paul, has stated repeatedly over the years that Ron Paul harbored many anti-Isreali sentiments, including that Ron Paul wishes that the State of Israel did not exist at all.
Since MQS is a former Ron Paul staffer and since his opposition to Speaker Straus borders on the irrational, it is quite a legitimate discussion to determine if MQS or TIm Dunn are anti-semites. Dunn attends an extremely conservative church in Midland and is known to harbor Reform Baptist like opinions on the role of women in society, etc.
And in light of the nasty level of personal attacks that these two – along with knuckle scrappers like Joann Fleming & Alice Linahan – have subjected the Straus family to, it is only fair to shine the spotlight on these urchins and give the a taste of their own medicine.
Let the discussion continue.
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Josef Goebbels says:
Ich liebe das Burka-Blog. Es ist meine Quelle alles politischen Wissens Texas. Das Niveau des Hasses und der Schärfe, die hier gefunden werden, wärmt mein kaltes Herz. Danke Herr Burka für alle, die Sie tun. Sie sind ein Schatz zum Texas.
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Vernon Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
Sei nicht so sarcastisch, junge.
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Lance says:
Simpson and Bryan Hughes should go on the Jerry Springer Show. It would be a very interesting show. They could talk about the Tea Party’s support of marrying your second cousin. Maybe the Koch brother’s foundation Americans for Prosperity could fund several buses full of trailer park voters to attend the show.
FYI…. The Tea Party is dead in Texas… It only exist in the trailer parks.
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Obama supporter Reply:
December 13th, 2012 at 9:25 pm
If only. The Tea Party is very alive in TX and you know that Lance. Quit kidding yourself.
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JBBB Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 8:17 am
Alive the way a run over snake is alive. Mean, snappy and bitter with a short time to go.
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Sprio Eagleton Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 10:22 am
You must have a hard time running over snakes. Any snake I’ve run over dies instantly. Any how do you know snakes are bitter?
JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 15th, 2012 at 5:56 am
I’m just a warm lovable fuzzable who stands up to dem hatred. Why do dems hate so much?
Lance Reply:
December 17th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
Hey John,
All I can say is “Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!!!”. Lol…. I will see you and the rest if the trailer park on the Springer Show…
Garner's Bucket says:
The Tea Party fever has indeed broken (even here in Texas), but the body politic still has a ways to go on the road to recovery.
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Session Vet says:
We have a better shot at the Mayans being right about the end of the world than Simpson has at becoming Speaker. But, the only way he even has a chance is if he strikes a bargain with TMF and the House Dems. What sweet irony lay ahead if Simpson does the very thing MQS has used for political warfare against Straus to win the Speakership? What shred of credibility is left for him then, even with the crazies that support his vitriolic B.S.?
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Juanita Manziel Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 10:27 am
No path exists–not one–for Simpson (or for Hughes) to become Speaker unless it is with substantial Democrat support. And get this, both Hughes and Simpson have always known that.
Hypocrisy is not a way to win the trust of House members for their vote.
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I'm Pavlov. Ring a Bell? says:
“The Tea Party fever has indeed broken (even here in Texas)…”
You’re either delusional or were in a coma on Nov. 6th because the Texas House and Senate got more conservative in the last election thanks to a fired-up Tea Party electorate.
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Sprio Eagleton Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 10:23 am
That’s true. The primaries made the House more conservative and the senate much more conservative.
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Garner's Bucket Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
More democrats in the House makes the body more conservative? Ok, whatever.
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Blue Dogs says:
Tea Party is here to STAY in Texas politics for the forseeable future.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
not only is the tea party here to stay, it’s needed now more than it ever was as dems try to force more share the wealth(taxes) on the producers.
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Lance Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 4:50 pm
Hey John,
The only people who read this blog are political hacks and insiders… the Tea Party is dead now that Obama is not an election issue… The Tea Party was invented by the Koch brothers to push a libertarian agenda. The Dems can’t do anything in Texas because the R’s still run things for now… Thanks to the Tea Party, the D’s will be taking over this state soon because the R’s have ignored the independent voters by shifting too far to the right and by ignoring minorities, who now are the majority with 54 % of the vote. The Hispanic population in Texas is growing at 2% a year. The Tea Party is killing the R party in Texas, and the R’s know it.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 14th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
The tea party isn’t only alive and kicking and a force in Texas politics. The dems who haven’t won a statewide election in 20 years not so much.
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Garner's Bucket says:
The Tea Party is as strong as it ever was, actually (about 1/3 of the Republican electorate in an average election–the same ultra-conservative folks that all the mainstream GOPers have quietly edged away from at the Pachyderm Club lunch for years), but the Establishment ultimately wins. This is Texas. That’s how it goes.
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JohnBernardBooks says:
The losers are the uninformed who spout off “there is no difference in parties”. Yes there is and when you learn what a democrats really is you’ll never vote democrat again.
I have never voted dem.
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Kenneth D. Franks says:
Eight to 11 errors in three sentences is really amazing. Here is a correction that doesn’t change the basic meaning of the paragraph.
The losers are the uninformed who spout off, “There is no difference in parties.” Yes, there is and when you learn what Democrats really are, You’ll never vote Democratic again. I have never voted for a Democrat.
I am a Democrat however I don’t mind correcting sentences and paragraphs occasionally.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 16th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Kenneth the entitled pontificates. What’s wrong is your government check late?
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Rich, white & educated says:
JBB–
I have concluded that you are joking. That every single thing you write, just like FiftyCal, is tongue in cheek. Because there is no way, I mean no possible way, that you can be as obtuse as your posts.
This isn’t a liberal/conservative or Rep/Dem issue. Your blog character/alter ego is simply a blithering idiot. Many people in the great state of Texas are actually as dumb as you purport to be, which I suppose makes your presence here marginally relevant, but seriously, you must stop with this charade.
Although I would expect a working-class pedo-bearded T-shirt Aggie in a formerly white suburb to be bitter, your blog persona is too far gone to be serious.
If you ARE serious, God help us all. If you are trying to be funny, please get some new bullshit so that we don’t require Burka to ban you too in order to keep his blog alive.
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JohnBernardBooks Reply:
December 18th, 2012 at 9:03 am
look dummy I have said plainly I come here to make fun of liberals, what part of that don’t you understand?
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Tarry House says:
Good to purge our brainscand souls of MQS through these cathartic posts. Like Grover Norquist, MQS 15 mins is over. Reasonable Texans and informed Republicans while disliking taxes actually care about first-rate universities, healthychildren no matter skin color, secure borders but path to citizenship and don’t give a whit about abortion anymore. MQS and Tim Dunn personal hatred of Straus is obvious. Joe Pojmans, Peggy Venable and that crazed Liberty bunch out of Dallas are irrelevant too. Thank God the House is taking up serious issues of state this Session. Too bad the Sen president is kow towing to the right fringe now.
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